People Sick

[Rachiegarlo]

You are so proud of your achievments and you want to show your family (and rightly so) and it can come as a bit of a shock if they don't seem as thrilled as you. You have a new house(even if it's a rental), your kids/dogs/pet rocks are all leading healthy lives and gaining new skills(well maybe not the rocks) and if you had been in the UK your family would have acknowledged all this. You would probably like them to validate your life changing decision by seeming to want to keep in touch and visit etc. However there are some people who have absolutely no idea what goes on in the rest of the world except what happens locally. Particularly if they have lived in one place all their lives. Somewhere else can be the equivilent to outer space and perhaps it's hard for them to come to terms with it. BUT most families are great and when you finally do get back together, it is usually just like old times. My siblings are far flung in the world and some of them I only see every few years, occasionally chat to on msn or on the phone, but when we do meet up we are still a close knit bunch. If you can get your parents to visit then they will have visual terms of reference when they talk to you on the phone, they will be more physically connected to your new life, but in the mean time keep sending those photos, dvds etc, you might be surprised at how many people get to see these as they are proudly shown around.

[kelseyliz]

HI ALL WHO READS

WE HAVE BEEN IN AUS FOR A YEAR I LOVE THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE AND CAME HERE TO CHANGE MY ENGLISH SHOPAHOLIC AND EXTRAVIGANT WAYS

TO APPRICIATE A MORE ACTIVE HEALTHY LIFE . THAT I HAVE FOUND THAT AND MUCH MUCH MORE

BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MY FAMILY IN THE UK PARENTS TO BE EXACT HAVE BEEN SELFISH AND TOTALLY UNSUPPORTIVE THINKING OF THEMSELFS AND VOICING THE FACTTHAT THEYWERE NOT HAPPY ABOUT THE MOVE, AND CONTACT BY THEM HAS BEEN POOR , I HAVE FOUND THIS HARD TO DEAL WITH THEY HAVE SURROUNDED ME WITH GUILT.


MY SETTLING IN PERIOD HAS BEEN MUCH HARDER THAN I HAD HOPED HAVING GOOD AND SOMETIMES VERY BAD DAYS .

MY HUSBAND HAS SETTLED WELL AND SO HAS MY LITTLE GIRL . I GUESS WHAT I AM ASKING IS DOES ANYONE ELSE SUFFER FROM THIS PEOPLE SICKNESS ALMOST LIKE GREIVEING AND HAS ANYONE HAD THE SAME OR SIMILAR EXPERIENCES AND DOES IT GET BETTER AND HAS ANYONE ANY ADVICE .

DO YOU NEED A QUALITY HAIRDRESSER GIVE ME A PM

Keep your chin up girl! It does get better! and yes, I need a hairdresser! mines in England and I've had the same one for 18 years!

[izzy]

thankyou for all your replys to my people sick ,

you have all helped immensly i feel so much better to know that i am not alone in the way that i feel , i hope anyone reading all the threads to my people sick , particulaly if they have felt the way i hav e will have more of an understanding as to how people think and act ,

i will most certainly look forward to the future and make the very best of it , once again thankyou for all the advice and nice words they mean so much

thanks